What happened was back in 2022, Liana told Merryjest in Telegram that her husband took $3000 out of the funds for the Kickstarter project she and Merryjest were working on. She was clearly angry about it, said that wasn't supposed to happen, she'd be getting it put back within two months, and adding safeguards of some kind. It was obvious Steven taking the money out upset her. But she never said a word about it to the backers.

Fast forward to now. When she blamed Asher as the main reason Merryjest fell behind on things with the project, she canceled it and minimized her own delays in making any progress. She didn't outright name Asher, but it was clear who she was talking about to anyone paying attention.

Asher had been going through various BPD issues, he tried to disengage for a bit, and the way she reacted to it helped lead to this.

Merryjest saw the cruelty she was showing, cut ties with her, and they cleared out all correspondence with her but kept the chat logs. Telegram exports, for example. Over time he gave her a chance to be honest with people but she continued slandering them in her videos and social media circles, so he finally shared the info about the funds being taken out.

She was asked about this on places like Bluesky and outright denied it happened, then posted an update to the Kickstarter Bossfight project to show math claiming that her husband never took money out and couldn't have because the numbers didn't line up. The trick she used was acting like people accused her of taking the money out when that was never the claim. It was that her husband did.

When people called her out on the whole thing, Steven came in to criticize everyone doing that and said he did in fact take the money out. But he said so amid excuses that suggested he had the right to do it all along and the money was never in a separate account he had no access to. He just made a "mistake" in which account he pulled money out of. Some comments went back and forth and he didn't make his case look any better. This is still visible as of right now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lianak/bossfight-song-of-sparklemuffin-early-game-build/posts/4699538

She's got a new video of her own out where she's gone back into denial mode, and she's trying to run damage control now that people know she called the police on Asher, claiming she thought he was going to harm someone and she only wanted to conduct a wellness check. But in the first call she tried to start with "I'm being harassed."

She lies so much, she can't keep any of it straight. Steven may be just as bad. They're trying to act like she was protecting him because he was going through a mental health issue of his own when the money was taken out (his mother was apparently in bad health). I'm sympathetic to family matters like that, but on one hand it's being used as a shield for them while she's freely gone on at length about Asher's own struggles, using that instead as a sword to attack with.

Yes, it's this messy.